The Madman: His Parables and Poems (Aziloth Books) - Softcover

Gibran, Khalil

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1911405357 ISBN 13: 9781911405351

Publisher: Aziloth Books, 2017

Synopsis

   Khalil Gibran was an accomplished Lebanese writer, philosopher and artist – and by all accounts the third most popular poet in history after Shakespeare and Lao-Tzu. Born in 1883 into a disadvantaged Maronite Christian family, his genius propelled him to the level of world renowned author with best-selling works like The Prophet, The Madman and Sand and Foam. Gibran was influenced by his own religion as well as by the mysticism of the Sufis and, in particular, by the Bahá'í Faith, a religion that stresses the spiritual unity of all mankind and recognises that we were all created by the same God.

   The Madman is the voice of a mystic whose masks, or personae, have been “stolen”.  It is a distillate, in parable form, of the “true self” – full of the wonder of God and yet, at times, troubled with sardonic questions about man’s spiritual path.  The narrator – no doubt Gibran himself – is the impassioned seeker, who expresses himself through the thirty-four parables and poems of The Madman.  Its bitter tones and dark spaces are not for the faint-hearted spiritual traveller but it is without doubt an honest and potent expression of a true seeker.

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About the Author

1883-1931. Khalil Gibran, writer, philosopher and, by all accounts, the third most popular poet in history after Shakespeare and Lao-Tzu, was born in the town of Bsharri in the north of Lebanon into a disadvantaged Maronite Christian family. Despite his challenging early childhood, Gibran rose to the level of world renowned author after his mother and siblings emigrated to Boston in America when he was twelve years old. The likes of Fred Holland Day, a pioneering artist, photographer and publisher and Mary Elizabeth Haskell, a well-to-do headmistress, were influential and supportive figures from early on in his career. Gibran wrote many acclaimed works in both Arabic and English. 'The Madman', published in 1918, was the first book he wrote in English while his 1923 work, 'The Prophet', is notably Gibran's best-selling book.

Edition details

• Publisher: Aziloth Books
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1911405357
• ISBN 13: 9781911405351
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 48